By Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein If conquest and forced colonization were a misfortune for the peoples of the South, the fact that the Spanish reached vast regions of America before other colonial powers was a double tragedy. At the end of the 15th century, Spain was in the process of transition to the Modern Age, lagging behind much of Europe in ...
Starting in the 20th century, the African continent has largely concluded the process of de-colonization. Almost all countries achieved independence and national sovereignty, and have today advanced to deepening economic sovereignty also by increasingly making use of the emerging multipolar world order. An exception of this trend is the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. In 1975, the former colonial power Spain ...
Under US pressure, there is a huge debate in Europe on tightening the sanctions regime on Russia. Those who defend a stronger stance also paint a picture of a united political class. Is that true? We have interviewed Elena Labrado, journalist and editor at Spain’s Castilla-La Mancha Media on her country’s positioning in the crisis and its effects on Spain. ...
By Nuño Rodríguez, political scientist For decades, worldwide media has been announcing the apocalyptic danger of climate change. Most media sources disseminate the information produced by countless NGOs and foundations of dubious legitimacy and dubious funding. The media narrative presents itself as incontestable and unidirectional: co2 emissions from human industry are causing climate change. Estimates speak of an increase in ...
United World International is starting a survey on the global Covid-19 situation, consulting its various experts in different countries. By Nuño Rodríguez, political scientist The pandemic situation in Spain has from the beginning been determined by uncertainty. The uncertainty has been the confusing, inaccurate, and misleading information that the government has disseminated in the media. That is not counting the ...
The coronavirus pandemic has put many countries of the world, their health systems and their political organization under serious strain. The European Union has certainly not been exempt from this, the entire alliance strongly suffering from the outbreak’s impact, especially in Spain and Italy. At the recent European summit there were tense moments between representatives of various EU states who ...
Alarming events are taking place in the West, the region of the world which has become the epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic. European countries and the United States are all blaming each other in their panic at having been caught unprepared for the pandemic, lacking the healthcare system and supplies to deal with the crisis. The EU had closed its ...
Context On November 10, 2019, early elections to the Spanish ‘Cortes Generales’ (Parliament) were held in Spain, but no party won an absolute majority of seats in Congress needed to form a government. Moreover, even possible coalitions between the five major parties do not have an absolute majority and all need the votes of minority regional or nationalist (separatist) parties. ...
On Sunday, November 10, parliamentary elections were held in Spain for the second time this year. The parties elected in the first contest in April have been unable to agree on who should serve as President, leaving the government in a deadlock. As a result, new elections were called to end the stalemate. The new negotiations are taking place against ...
On October 13, several Catalan separatist leaders were sentenced to 13, 12 and 9 years in prison for trying to declare independence from Spain via an illegal referendum in 2017. Immediately after the sentence was announced, radical independence groups went into the streets of Catalonia and began to institute chaos and violence. The protesters attempted to take over the Barcelona ...